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New ion speed record holds potential for faster battery charging and biosensing

How brain evolution is linked to the use of tools

Youth tobacco use has gone down, but the work isn’t over

Why I Want to Be Buried on the Moon

Why Hypochondria Can Be Deadly, and How Newer Treatments Help

Should Offshore Oil Rigs Be Turned into Artificial Reefs?

See How Close We Are to Gender Equality around the World

Poem: ‘The First Bite’

Mathematicians Discover a New Kind of Shape That’s All over Nature

Math Puzzle: Find the Secret System

How the Science of Curiosity Boosts Learning

Horse Domestication Story Gets a Surprising Rewrite

Fossil Fuels Are Not Essential

December 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Could Ocean Engineering Pull Carbon from the Atmosphere as a Last Resort against Climate Change?

Concussions Are Remarkably Common and Can Cause Long-Term Problems

Book Review: How Oak Trees Warn Us about the Limits of Adapting to Climate Change

Book Review: An Expansive New Translation of a Haruki Murakami Classic

Book Bans Harm Kids

Healthy 'New Towns': Revitalizing neighborhoods in the wake of aging populations

Adulting, nerdiness and the importance of single-panel comics

Research reveals teenage truancy rates have risen in English-speaking countries since COVID-19

How flood risk affects home values

New giant radio galaxy discovered with MeerKAT

Hollywood techniques help NASA visualize supercomputing data

Quantum computers hit a crucial milestone for error-free calculation

How can brands address growing consumer skepticism?

Readers Respond to the July/August 2024 Issue

Famous Star Hasn’t Formed Planets, and We Don’t Know Why

Curiosity, Horses and Hypochondria

Contributors to Scientific American’s December 2024 Issue

Reward of $100,000 offered in mysterious death of beloved Mexican gray wolf in Arizona

Researchers study the roar of SpaceX's Starship and its impact on communities and the environment

California water recycling plant gains $26 million to feed Lake Mead

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

Exotic Powder Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air at a Record Rate

First ever goat-fish petroglyph reveals Egyptian understanding of zodiac symbols

A giant hornet from Asia has appeared in Europe for the first time

Wild cavefish can somehow survive with almost no sleep at all

Populations overheat as major cities fail canopy goals

By exerting 'crowd control' over mouse cells, scientists make progress towards engineering tissues

Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital's smog misery

Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record

Floods strike thousands of houses in northern Philippines

SpaceX set for Starship's next flight

Deducing commonality from complexity: Scientist explores 'Mesoscience' to address global issues

In southern India's tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests

AI maths assistant could help solve problems that humans are stuck on

Why school police officers may not be the most effective way to prevent violence

Cholesterol is not the only lipid involved in trans fat-driven cardiovascular disease